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2009
w15365 Alan S. Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
Ebonya Washington

Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment

w15343 Mathias Trabandt
Harald Uhlig

How Far Are We From The Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited

w15290 Martin S. Feldstein
Economic Conditions and U.S. National Security in the 1930s and Today

w15246 Raj Chetty
The Simple Economics of Salience and Taxation

w15220 Andrew Gelman
Nate Silver
Aaron Edlin

What is the probability your vote will make a difference?

w15127 Isaías N. Chaves
Leopoldo Fergusson
James A. Robinson

He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election

w15013 Assaf Razin
Edith Sand

Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security: Political-Economy Effect

w14929 Thomas Philippon
Philipp Schnabl

Efficient Recapitalization

w14852 Caroline M. Hoxby
Sonali Murarka

Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement

w14851 Philippe Aghion
Mathias Dewatripont
Caroline M. Hoxby
Andreu Mas-Colell
André Sapir

The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

w14775 Marigee Bacolod
John DiNardo
Mireille Jacobson

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

w14762 Ruben Durante
Brian Knight

Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy

w14723 David S. Lee
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics


2008
w14593 Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
John F. Helliwell

Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

w14578 Justine S. Hastings
Ebonya L. Washington

The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

w14538 Justine S. Hastings
Lydia Tejeda-Ashton

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14498 Samuel H. Preston
Caroline Sten Hartnett

The Future of American Fertility

w14470 David Card
Alexandre Mas
Jesse Rothstein

Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping

w14445 Brian G. Knight
Chun-Fang Chiang

Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements

w14419 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew G. Resseger
Kristina Tobio

Urban Inequality

w14403 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance

w14399 Raj Chetty
Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

w14374 Edward L. Glaeser
Charles Redlick

Social Capital and Urban Growth

w14373 Edward L. Glaeser
Joshua D. Gottlieb

The Economics of Place-Making Policies

w14371 Mark Duggan
Randi Hjalmarsson
Brian A. Jacob

The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas

w14356 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

w14091 Eric J. Brunner
Stephen L. Ross
Ebonya L. Washington

Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals

w14029 James A. Brander
Edward J. Egan
Thomas F. Hellmann

Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence

w13967 Raj Chetty
Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

w13801 Susan Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis

w13786 Joseph Chen
Samuel Hanson
Harrison Hong
Jeremy C. Stein

Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?

w13763 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Ben Marx
David Rapson

To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question

w13720 Emmanuel Farhi
Iván Werning

Optimal Savings Distortions with Recursive Preferences


2007
w13643 Matthew J. Kotchen
Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets

w13623 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments

w13622 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

w13562 Aaron Edlin
Andrew Gelman
Noah Kaplan

Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others

w13549 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Courtney LaFountain

Still the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13380 Ilyana Kuziemko
Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime

w13330 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney
Kory Kroft

Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

w13279 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

From Brown to Busing

w13236 Patrick Bayer
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan

A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

w12931 Jeffrey R. Kling
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments

w12893 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber

The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

w12849 Neeraj Kaushal
Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience


2006
w12751 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Party Influence in Congress and the Economy

w12637 Dale F. Gray
Robert C. Merton
Zvi Bodie

A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy

w12588 Richard B. Freeman
Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives: Evidence from a Tournament

w12550 Marco Cagetti
Mariacristina De Nardi

Wealth Inequality: Data and Models

w12227 Susan M. Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics

w12169 Stefano DellaVigna
Ethan Kaplan

The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting

w12049 Alberto Alesina
Silvia Ardagna
Francesco Trebbi

Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms

w11924 Ebonya Washington
Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues

w11915 Ebonya Washington
How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout

w11910 Sendhil Mullainathan
Ebonya Washington

Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Voting


2005
w11813 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan

Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality

w11760 Raj Chetty
Why do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations? Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity

w11724 Tomas J. Philipson
Ernst R. Berndt
Adrian H. B. Gottschalk
Matthew W. Strobeck

Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of the FDA: The Case of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts

w11709 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney

Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies

w11708 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney

Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States

w11680 Esther Duflo
William Gale
Jeffrey Liebman
Peter Orszag
Emmanuel Saez

Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

w11675 Charles F. Manski
Fractional Treatment Rules for Social Diversification of Indivisible Private Risks

w11622 Shinichi Nishiyama
Kent Smetters

Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?

w11612 Steven J. Haider
Kathleen McGarry

Recent Trends in Resource Sharing Among the Poor

w11605 Amitabh Chandra
Andrew A. Samwick

Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

w11518 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

w11507 Patrick Bayer
Hanming Fang
Robert McMillan

Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation

w11309 David Card
Enrico Moretti

Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

w11290 Jonathan Gruber
David Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications, Introduction and Summary

w11218 Dana Goldman
James P. Smith

Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies

w11101 Kent Smetters
Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes

w11098 Martin Feldstein
Structural Reform of Social Security

w11095 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Kim Rueben

Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

w11084 Martin Feldstein
Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

w11080 John Joseph Wallis
Price Fishback
Shawn Kantor

Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

w11060 Jagadeesh Gokhale
Kent Smetters

Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems

w11038 Kent Smetters
Insuring Against Terrorism: The Policy Challenge


2004
w10969 Antoine Bommier
Ronald Lee
Timothy Miller
Stephane Zuber

Who Wins and Who Loses? Public Transfer Accounts for US Generations Born 1850 to 2090

w10953 Sita Nataraj
John B. Shoven

Has the Unified Budget Undermined the Federal Government Trust Funds?

w10928 Allan Drazen
Nuno Limão
Thomas Stratman

Political Contribution Caps and Lobby Formation: Theory and Evidence

w10917 Ronald Lee
Timothy Miller
Michael Anderson

Stochastic Infinite Horizon Forecasts for Social Security and Related Studies

w10865 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Kim Rueben

An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market

w10782 Jeffrey R. Brown
Amy Finkelstein

Supply or Demand: Why is the Market for Long-Term Care Insurance So Small?

w10701 Katherine Baicker
Nora Gordon

The Effect of Mandated State Education Spending on Total Local Resources

w10681 Eric M. Engen
R. Glenn Hubbard

Federal Government Debt and Interest Rates

w10667 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being

w10634 Kate L. Antonovics
Brian G. Knight

A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department

w10551 William M. Gentry
R. Glenn Hubbard

"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation

w10530 Brian Knight
Bargaining in Legislatures: An Empirical Investigation

w10525 Axel Boersch-Supan
Christina B. Wilke

The German Public Pension System: How it Was, How it Will Be

w10484 Katherine Baicker
Mireille Jacobson

Finders Keepers: Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets

w10440 Katherine Baicker
Douglas Staiger

Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality

w10342 Alberto Alesina
Roberto Perotti

The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View

w10333 Brian Knight
Are Policy Platforms Capitalized into Equity Prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election

w10339 Kohei Komamura
Atsuhiro Yamada

Who Bears the Burden of Social Insurance?

w10313 Alberto Alesina
Eliana La Ferrara

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

w10241 Alberto Alesina
Guido Tabellini

Bureaucrats or Politicians?

w10203 Edward L. Glaeser
Psychology and the Market


2003
w10176 Torsten Persson
Gerard Roland
Guido Tabellini

How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies?

w10151 Manuel Amador
Ivan Werning
George-Marios Angeletos

Commitment Vs. Flexibility

w10136 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Thierry Verdier

Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule

w10096 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence Kotlikoff

The Developed World's Demographic Transition - The Roles of Capital Flows, Immigration, and Policy

w9972 Leemore S. Dafny
How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?

w9892 James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise

Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts

w9869 Peter H. Lindert
Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch

w9824 H. Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins

w9661 Jon Bakija
William Gale
Joel Slemrod

Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritance and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from Across States and Time

w9652 Brian A. Jacob
Public Housing, Housing Vouchers and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago

w9492 Shinichi Nishiyama
Kent Smetters

Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a Stochastic OLG Economy

w9455 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan

Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security Programs


2002
w9336 Ian Ayres
John J. Donohue III

Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

w9315 David S. Lee
Enrico Moretti
Matthew J. Butler

Credibility and Policy Convergence: Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records

w9290 Richard E. Baldwin
Paul Krugman

Agglomeration, Integration and Tax Harmonization

w9278 Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka

The Stability and Growth Pact as an Impediment to Privatizing Social Security

w9215 Darius Lakdawalla
George Zanjani

Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism

w9179 Antonio Rangel
How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax Base Restrictions

w9130 Dahlia K. Remler
Joshua Graff Zivin
Sherry A. Glied

Modeling Health Insurance Expansions: Effects of Alternate Approaches

w8979 D. Lee Heavner
Lance Lochner

Social Networks and the Aggregation on Individual Decisions

w8973 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel
Luis Rayo

Democratic Policy Making with Real-Time Agenda Setting: Part 1

w8873 Caroline M. Hoxby
School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)

w8855 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Cost of Accountability

w8825 Dan A. Black
Jeffrey A. Smith
Mark C. Berger
Brett J. Noel

Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System

w8823 Yoshiaki Azuma
Herschel I. Grossman

A Theory of the Informal Sector

w8753 Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott J. Weisbenner

Is a Bird in Hand Worth More than a Bird in the Bush? Intergenerational Transfers and Savings Behavior


2001
w8669 Hans-Werner Sinn
Risk Taking, Limited Liability and the Competition of Bank Regulators

w8532 Francesco Caselli
Massimo Morelli

Bad Politicians

w8405 Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka
Phillip Swagel

The Aging Population and the Size of the Welfare State

t0271 Helen Tauchen
Ann Dryden Witte

Estimating Hedonic Models: Implications of the Theory

w8270 Laurence Ball
N. Gregory Mankiw

Intergenerational Risk Sharing in the Spirit of Arrow, Debreu, and Rawls, with Applications to Social Security Design

t0268 Estelle Cantillon
A Graphical Analysis of Some Basic Results in Social Choice


2000
w7948 Sendhil Mullainathan
Richard H. Thaler

Behavioral Economics

w7586 Hans-Werner Sinn
Germany's Economic Unification: An Assessment after Ten Years

w7518 Antonio Rangel
Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange


1999
w7092 David F. Bradford
Daniel N. Shaviro

The Economics of Vouchers


1998
w6786 Robert Witt
Ann Dryden Witte

Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach

w6684 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
The A-K Model: It's Past, Present, and Future

w6433 William M. Gentry
R. Glenn Hubbard

Fundamental Tax Reform and Corporate Financial Policy


1997
w6151 Victor R. Fuchs
Alan B. Krueger
James M. Poterba

Why do Economists Disagree About Policy?


1996
w3796 Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka

Vanishing Tax on Capital Income in the Open Economy


1995
w5330 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Privatization of Social Security: How It Works and Why It Matters

w5118 Vernon Henderson
Effects of Air Quality Regulation


1994
w4885 Martin Feldstein
Fiscal Policies, Capital Formation, and Capitalism

w3923 Richard G. Frank
Martin Gaynor

"Organizational Failure and Government Transfers: Evidence From an Experiment in the Financing of Mental Health Care."


1992
w4061 Lawrence H. Goulder
Do the Costs of a Carbon Tax Vanish When Interactions With Other Taxes are Accounted For?

w4051 James R. Markusen
Edward R. Morey
Nancy Olewiler

Noncooperative Equilibria in Regional Environmental Policies When Plant Locations are Endogenous

w4021 Martin Feldstein
The Effects of Tax-Based Saving Incentives on Government Revenue and National Saving


1991
w3902 Mark Gertler
R. Glenn Hubbard

Corporate Financial Policy, Taxation, and Macroeconomic Risk

w3839 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Tax Exporting, Federal Deductibility, and State Tax Structure


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